How do you choose the right shade of foundation without trying it out?

There's two different ones I wanna try and I cannot find them in store, which means I'll have to order them but I don't want to **** up my shades.

 

Buy them both, resell the one you don't want

 

if you know you mac shade you can often google comparisons in different brands to the mac shade #s. I also find the pantone system on sephoras website to be prettty accurate so if you know your shade in one foundation it gives you the suggestion for other ones.

 

Just buy less make up. You already have too much.

 

Ooh, good to know, thanks!

I wanna try the colourpop one. I've been meaning to try it for a bit, but I don't know what shade I'd be and despite them being fairly cheap, I'd rather not try a bunch to find the right one, but I feel like I might have to.

 

colourpop has this https://colourpop.com/pages/find-your-match

 

I was browsing mobile and didn't see this. Thank you so much!

 

I forgot about colorpop and bought a huda foundation instead. Oops.